After the previous post, we have a slight itch, a little bad conscience, thinking that maybe we went too far with the criticism and that, like the protagonists of Astrud’s song “todo nos parece una mierda” [everything seems like shit to us]. But it is not like that, in reality the congress and the Innova portal that we were talking about yesterday seem like positive initiatives to us. It is good that teachers who work in isolation in their centers, fighting against immobility, open physical or cyber spaces in which to share their experiences, expand knowledge and skills, and in which alliances are generated that have an impact on a greater share of authority and autonomy of the “creative” teachers in their respective centers. However, it will also be understood that it is necessary to open spaces for criticism and debate.
One of the questions that should be asked is what do we mean by innovation? Here we find that a good part of the projects for education in values, for democracy or peace do not transform the devices and structures of an educational system whose operation is not at all democratic and perpetuates forms of systemic violence that have become invisible by dint of being reproduced.
To top it off, we want to bring up an experience that we don’t know if it will be innovative or not, but what it does seem to do is approach education from a considerably different perspective than the one we find in most of our schools, since it starts from the transformation of the very structures that produce and sustain the school and that the school itself is responsible for reproducing. It also affects a main characteristic of educational institutions, which is, paraphrasing